Trying to play Youtube video fails with the following error:
lua error: Couldn't extract youtube video URL, please check for updates to this script
We have a Debian Wheezy machine with VLC 2.0.3 installed.
# dpkg -l vlc [...] ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-=======-============-==============-================================= ii vlc 2.0.3-5 amd64 multimedia player and streamer
The problem can be fix by replacing the original youtube.luac file with the content from the following git:
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc/vlc-2.0.git;a=blob_plain;f=share/lua/playlist/youtube.lua;hb=HEAD
Create a backup first:
# mv /usr/lib/vlc/lua/playlist/youtube.luac /usr/lib/vlc/lua/playlist/youtube.luac.org
Create a new youtube.luac file and paste the content of the git:
# vim /usr/lib/vlc/lua/playlist/youtube.luac